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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother."
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Personal Development
"We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now."
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"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."
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"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."
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"Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it."
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"The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
Fact
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
Nation
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Happiness
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
Food
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."
Man
"A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child subject still to her power but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother."
Philosophy
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